Greetings!I used your art for a Tolkien competition. I had to create the facebook "wall" of the Istari, and I used this one as a shared picture. Hope it's not a problem (if it is, tell me and I'll delete it). I uploaded it here on DA ([link]) and marked the source.

"What do you want, Gandalf Greyhame? Let me guess. The Key of Orthanc? Or perhaps the Keys of Barad-Dûr itself, along with the Crowns of the Seven Kings and the Rods of the Five Wizards!?"Very cool depiction of their staves! Pallando's in particular was rather creative, and I like how Alatar's looks like it might've been made from a branch of the White Tree of Gondor.

Excellent! I like the imaginative designs of the unseen wizards' staves. Are they your original interpretation/invention? Or has your friend described them as so in his fan fic? I personally think that Saruman's staff looks the most impressive. Very accurate depiction of his and Gandalf's staffs, relative to the movie. (I hope I don't offend you when I make that comparison! They really do look like the ones in the movie. If you invented the design first though, it's vice versa and you could probably claim royalties from them.)

This was submitted on November 1, 2008, long after (relatively speaking) even the third movie came out, so the possibility of the movie stealing this idea is low to say the least. But, yes, the designs are quite marvelous.